Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has unveiled a laboratory in Huntsville, Alabama, to support research, modeling and simulation work on systems for defending against missile threats. The company said Wednesday it established the Missile Defense Futures Lab to encourage collaboration between the technology industry and military sector. MDFL has servers a...
Graham Robinson, senior vice president and president of Stanley Black & Decker‘s (NYSE: SWK) industrial segment, has joined the board of directors of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). Kathy Warden, chairman, CEO and president of Northrop and a six-time Wash100 Award recipient, said in a statement Thursday that Robinson brings global business a...
Michael Witt, formerly a corporate director at chemical company Dow, will officially join Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) on Aug. 9 to serve as vice president and chief sustainability officer. He will oversee Northrop’s carbon reduction activities, resource efficiency efforts and other initiatives aimed to promote environmental sustainability, th...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and NASA have finalized a potential $935 million contract to build the Habitation and Logistics Outpost module for the agency’s Gateway lunar space station as part of the Artemis program. Northrop said Friday it will also integrate the HALO module with the Power and Propulsion Element being developed by Maxar Technolog...
Stu Shea, president, CEO and board chairman of Peraton and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the acquisitions of Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) federal information technology and mission support business and Perspecta were the driving forces behind Peraton’s transformation into a next-generation national security company that supports federa...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) helped the U.S. Space Force send a payload into orbit Sunday using an air-launched rocket to demonstrate a rapid response mission for emerging military requirements. A Pegasus XL carried the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 mission to low Earth orbit as part of the branch’s technology demonstration satellite program ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will manufacture 18 more supersonic sea-skimming target vehicles for the U.S. Navy under a $55.4 million contract option. This award represents the first of three options under a potential $257 million full-rate production contract announced in December 2020 and brings the number of total GQM-163A Coyote vehicles ordered...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $105.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to build and maintain XM813 Bushmaster chain guns for the U.S. Army’s Stryker infantry carrier vehicle weapons modernization program. The Army is procuring the new configuration of 30×173 mm caliber cannons, a derivative of Northrop’s ...
Veritas Capital has closed its purchase of Perspecta and will integrate the latter with its portfolio company Peraton to create a combined entity focused on delivering enterprise information technology and mission capability integration support to federal, state and local government agencies. Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO at Peraton and a 20...
Tom Afferton, president of the cyber mission sector at Peraton, will provide a keynote speaker introduction at GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12. He will introduce Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, during the virtual event. Afferton joined Peraton, a portfolio compan...
